Critical Care
Prytime Medical™
Prytime Medical Devices, Inc., an innovative medical device company, designs, develops and commercializes minimally invasive solutions for hemorrhage control.
The company’s flagship product is the ER-REBOA™ Catheter, a 7 Fr compatible balloon catheter designed specifically for rapid, temporary occlusion of large vessels in the emergency and critical care environment during the REBOA (Resuscitative Endovascular Occlusion of the Aorta) procedure.
ER-REBOA™ Catheter
Z-Medica
Z-Medica is the home of the innovative blood clotting technology behind QuikClot® family of products for hemostasis. Z-Medica was founded in 2002 by Francis X. Hursey, a veteran of the Apollo Project Breathing Air Team.
Z-Medica manufactures the QuikClot® family of hemostatic products. QuikClot promotes clotting within minutes from application and is safe, effective and easy to use. QuikClot is designed for use by Healthcare Professionals, First Responders, Law Enforcement Officers, Consumers and the Military. QuikClot Combat Gauze® is the only hemostatic agent recommended by the Department of Defense for all branches of the U.S. Military for severe hemorrhage on the battlefield.
QuikClot
QuikClot products are now in their third generation and are impregnated with a mineral called kaolin that has been clinically shown to accelerate the body’s natural coagulation cascade. Kaolin is a naturally-occurring, inorganic mineral that does not contain any botanicals, biological material or shellfish products and does not cause any exothermic reaction or vascular complications. QuikClot products are credited with helping thousands of people survive traumatic blood loss every year.
It has been known for many years that the intrinsic blood clotting pathway is inititiated by negatively charged surfaces such as kaolin or glass. Kaolin is utilized routinely in reagents that are used to assay blood clotting times by clinical laboratories that follow procedures that are published by the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
Kaolin is an inert mineral and it promotes clotting by two main modes of action:
• Kaolin promotes the activation of Factor XII (FXII) in the presence of kallikrein and high molecular weight kininogen. Activated FXII initiates the intrinsic clotting pathway via the activation of Factor XI. Activated FXI continues the coagulation pathway that ends with the formation of a fibrin clot.
• Kaolin promotes the activation of platelet-associated FXI and it is a distinct and separate molecule from plasma FXI. Activated platelet-associated FXI initiates the intrinsic clotting pathway in normal and FXII deficient patients.
Blood Coagulation Pathways
Healthcare Professionals
QuikClot® hemostatic devices can help patients survive traumatic blood loss.
The unpredictable nature of patient care requires a reliable way to achieve hemostasis.
EMS
QuikClot® EMS hemostatic devices are a life-saving technology that every first responder needs.
Trauma is a major cause of death and disability and the second most expensive healthcare problem in the United States. Approximately 40% of trauma-related deaths are due to bleeding or its consequences, establishing hemorrhage as the most common cause of preventable death in trauma.1
1. Curry N, Hopewell S, Doree C, Hyde C, Brohi K, Stanworth S. The acute management of trauma hemorrhage: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Crit Care . 2011;15(2):R92.
Law Enforcement
QuikClot® hemostatic devices help first responders provide life-saving assistance until additional medical personnel arrive.
Used by many municipalities across the United States, QuikClot® hemostatic devices put life-saving technology into the hands of trained law enforcement officials.
Military
QuikClot Combat Gauze® is the hemostatic dressing of choice stated in the 2014 CoTCCC Guidelines.1
After extensive testing by the United States Army Institute for Surgical Research (USAISR) and the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) chose QuikClot Combat Gauze®.
1. Tactical Combat Casualty Care Guidelines 2 June 2014. http://www.usaisr.amedd.army.mil/pdfs/TCCC_Guidelines_140602.pdf. Accessed March 25, 2015.
